Maxime de la Rocheterie on Marie-Antoinette

"She was not a guilty woman, neither was she a saint; she was an upright, charming woman, a little frivolous, somewhat impulsive, but always pure; she was a queen, at times ardent in her fancies for her favourites and thoughtless in her policy, but proud and full of energy; a thorough woman in her winsome ways and tenderness of heart, until she became a martyr."

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

“Facts – not ideology – determine reality,” the American College of Pediatricians (ACP) said in a warning to legislators and educators about the dangers of surgical and medical sex change operations to children.

“Conditioning children into believing that a lifetime of chemical and
surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is
child abuse,” the physicians said, “Rates of suicide are twenty times
greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex
reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBTQ –
affirming countries.”

The group, which aims at getting parents involved in their children’s
health and education about health, said, “Gender (an awareness and
sense of oneself as male or female) is a sociological and psychological
concept; not an objective biological one,” and that, “A person’s belief
that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused
thinking.”

To the contrary, the group maintained that human sexuality is a
“binary trait” and said the XY and XX chromosomes that determine female
or male sex are “genetic markers of health” not “genetic markers of a
disorder.”

“No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex,” the statement said. The American Academy of Pediatricians, the larger professional
society from which the ACP broke away in 2002, has surgical and medical
interventions in youth to suppress the hormones that naturally cause
girls to grow into women and boys to men.

The ACP says this change in position has put American teens at higher
risk for physical and mental illness. “Puberty is not a disease and
puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous…as many as 98% of gender
confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their
biological sex after naturally passing through puberty,” the ACP pointed
out, and noted that children who use puberty blockers to “impersonate
the opposite sex” will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence
that in turn can cause dangerous health risks such as high blood
pressure, blood clots, stroke and cancer. (Read more.)

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